Grant Ideas

1.) Violence
This is an issue because the city of St. Louis is one of the most dangerous places in the nation, and it is important for organizations like America SCORES in St. Louis to gets kids off of the street and to learn to read, write and play.  I am interested because it involves people at a young age.

2.) Homelessness/Hunger
This is an issue because there is an increasing number of homeless people in St. Louis.  It is important for places like the Jewish Food Pantry and Operation Food Search to supply food for these people. This is interesting because of the compilation aspect of the food and then the distribution process.

3.) Going Green
This is an issue because St. Louis is a city and there is bound to be a fair amount of pollution.  The Missouri Coalition for the Environment is important not only for maintaining, but also restoring the environment.  This is interest because of the focus on restoration and not just maintenance.

Prisoner of Her Past PowerPoint

http://280slides.com/Viewer/?user=59468&name=Prisoner%20of%20Her%20Pastt&fullscreen

Research Question

The Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe during the Cold War brought censorship to many countries.  But was this suppression of freedom effective? What was the motive to bring this censorship?  Did the motive of the Soviets prove to work, in other words, did the Soviets achieve what they wanted from the censorship?


To find out what I am going to need, I am going to have to research different topics concerning the Soviet Union and their goals of the occupation of Eastern Europe.  Then I am going to look specifically into two main examples of the occupation in which there was a social revolt, one in Czechoslovakia and one in Hungary.  Once I have specifically introduced these events, I am going to show that the Soviet Union failed with their censorship of radio, news, etc., and how the that freedom of speech is essentially an unstoppable force that people demand.

Human Rights Ideas

How US Senatorial Failures have caused Human Rights Violation
http://www.suite101.com/human-rights-violations
http://www.suite101.com/content/congressional-senatorial-failure-a26186
or
Soviet Occupation of Czechoslovakia and Eastern Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

I am probably going to propose how the Soviet Union affected Eastern Europe during their occupancy and how there were numerous human rights violations, not necessarily major violations, but violations nonetheless.

Test Embed

http://280slides.com/Viewer/?user=59468&name=Prisoner%20of%20Her%20Pastt&fullscreen

MAUS II First Half

After the discussion, I feel that so far in the reading that most of my questions have been answered to some extent.  The primary thing that I am still unsure of is how Vladek felt guilty after Auschwitz as described by Art's therapist.  This, I hope, would bring a better understanding to the character of Vladek when he talks with his son, not only about the Holocaust, but also concerning life in general.

Article Review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/oct/01/uganda-un-war-crimes-congo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/24/congo-crimes-un

The main issue that I am finding is how the UN is dealing with the Rwanda genocide issue and the war crimes that occurred in the Congo from 1993-2003.  In one of these articles, the failures of the UN are harshly criticized and in the other, Uganda had joined Rwanda and Burundi in attacking the UN for the accusation of the war crimes in the Congo.  In both of these articles, it appears that UN is failing to do its job.  There was a serious genocide that occurred and there still has been nothing serious dealt with by the United Nations.  This just brings the question that is the UN doing right?  Concerning the the defenders, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, why are they so desperately trying to defend themselves from the UN accusations if the genocides happened because of the countries?